Advocate Mshololo seemed to touch a wrong nerve when she labeled Advocate Teffo’s long submission “wrong,” “unprocedural” and “inadmissible” in law.
Asked by the judge why she never objected during the more the two-hour-long submission, Advocate Mshololo said she was misled into thinking that Advocate Teffo had been given a new, proper instruction and that they were left “frustrated and traumatised for two hours.” “Yesterday, I said, if there is any application that should come from my learned friend, I would ask that it comes after I’m done with cross-examination. That was my submission. We did not object because we did not see , but we thought it would come to an end. The court went beyond its normal time yesterday, and it was really out of respect .”
Advocate Teffo seemed not to take kindly to the objections saying it was clear that his clients were being sidelined from the proceedings, saying it would seem Advocate Mshololo’s word was “alfa and omega” in court.“I don’t have a problem with being taught law. I am always willing to learn. But I cannot be ‘learned’ by people who are not ‘learned.’ These two on my sides are not learned.”Court has adjourned for lunch.